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IPhone that locks only when outside home
I realise I run the risk of a good idea being nicked but am 
also convinced if Apple or any others out there had thought of it, it would be in public circulation by now.
Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that you need to keep on entering your pin code to access your IPhone (or any phone for that matter) everytime you need to use your phone, even
when your in your own house? It's particularly annoying when your in bed, its dark and you just want to quickly check a text, or an expected email and have to faff about with the keypad each time.
To me its the only reason that I have not bothered to turn the feature on even though I'm acutely aware of the massive risk of not doing so. I have a brother and a boss who have both lost their IPhones, my boss had his locked but my brother didn't. I'm at a stage now where the information on my phone if in the hands of a stranger would cause me a lot of sleepless nights.
So my questions are:
1. How easy would it be write an app that can causes the keypad lock to only ever appear when it detects its no longer in the
range of your own WIFI? And for those without WIFI I'm sure it
could be setup to use coordinates based on your triangulation
GPS details.
2. If one were to set about learning objective C (Apples target
language) to write such an app would such a person be required
to make a core change to the apple OS software itself? I
suspect it would and is probably the reason no one has
attempted to do it.
3. Finally, would anyone out there use the feature
if Apple were to include it. Or am I on my own here.
I would love to hear everyone's views on this.
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